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Passage Sustained (film score)

by Lara Sarkissian

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wanted to finally share this film score, I was initially thinking of sounds around drone music and post rock when writing "Passage Sustained", particularly wanting to synthesize duduk, distort tar and create drone effects out of santur in parallel with these genres.

I further developed and finished composing this as the score for Memories of Loitering (2021), a film by Gelare Khoshgozaran. Digital video (16mm film, super 8 family footage, and digital video), color, sound, 7:30 min.

"Memories of Loitering intimately brings moments from the artist’s past and present together through a spatiotemporal experience of mapping and slow burn. In its overlaying of images and sounds, the piece meditates on the dislocation and accumulation of the residues of a past, which continue to form an embodied understanding of the disjointed present.

A central element of the work are excerpts from a written transcript of a conversation Khosgozaran had with her grandmother in 2016, right around the time she began to lose her memory and most cognitive abilities. In this conversation, the artist’s grandmother repeatedly asks the same questions from Khoshgozaran about returning, her current place of residence, and inquiries about the possibility of her “visiting home,” as if in an act of refusal to consolidate the fact that Khoshgozaran has left to what she refers to as “those places” or آنجاها (ānjāhā). Charting the slow decay of the mind, which inhibits the ability to console and make sense of the artist’s immigration, Memories of Loitering contrasts the slow drift of one’s life as an immigrant, inhabiting multiple realities, spaces, and desires, with the slow building of a new life in the empire as a diasporic subject, a labour that is ever going and never-ending."

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released January 5, 2022
Writing, Composition, Sound Design & Arrangement by Lara Sarkissian

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Lara Sarkissian San Francisco, California

Lara Sarkissian is an electronic composer and radio broadcaster. She founded experimental electronic dance label CLUB CHAI.

Her electroacoustic music sequences Armenian folk instruments and samples, underscored with an electronic rhythmic pulse that draws from a deep appreciation for dance, industrial and ambient music. She scores video, film and immersive AV installations. ... more

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